Genre-blurring instrumental interpreters will put their stamp on ELLNORA | The Guitar Festival in 2013.Jason Pierce aka J. Spaceman has fronted the rapturous British indie rock band Spiritualized for over 20 years. In 2006, his first solo album, Guitar Loops, arrived, and since then, his life has been filled to the brim with near-death experiences,… Continue reading Instrumental Indie/Psych/Space Rock on the Docket @ ELLNORA
Join us early for a talk with Colin and Rod of The Zombies moderated by director Jonathan Demme and stick around for a full length show with The Zombies, Django Django and Adam Green and Binki Shapiro. Tickets to this one-time conversation are $15 and available only on-site, starting at 3:30pm on June 15; tickets… Continue reading SummerStage presents The Zombies, Django Django, & Adam Green
The Waterboys will visit North America twice — once in the summer and again in the fall — with current album An Appointment With Mr. Yeats in hand. The band will tour five Canadian cities (Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, St. John’s and Halifax) July 12-21 with a stop at Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Celebrate Brooklyn festival. They will… Continue reading The Waterboys plan North American Spring & Fall Tours
The 47th Annual Bill Monroe Memorial Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival begins this Saturday, June 8 and continues through June 15 at the Bill Monroe Memorial Bluegrass Music Park & Campground in Bean Blossom (Brown County), Indiana. The 8-day event includes a stellar line-up of over 55 bluegrass bands, Youth Bluegrass Boot Camp, instrument and vocal… Continue reading Bill Monroe Memorial Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival begins Sat.
Meet Me At The Edge Of the World, the upcoming double album from the highly acclaimed band Over The Rhine, is set for a September 3rd release on their Great Speckled Dog label. Over The Rhine’s nucleus of husband and wife duo Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler have created their most ambitious offering to date… Continue reading Over The Rhine To Release Double Album on 9/3/13
The Silent Comedy is no laughing matter. Set to release the six-track EP Friends Divide on June 10th, The Silent Comedy has been fermenting nicely in San Diego’s local bar scene. Their previous album Common Faults sold over 14,000 copies. They have been accumulating a cult-like following, impart due to their ruckus live performances which… Continue reading The Silent Comedy | Friends Divide | Review
To start, Camera Obscura introduces Desire Lines with a brief, sweeping overture (simply, “Intro”) that hints at the structured dreamscape to come—not that any future tracks on the record revisit the string arrangement procured here; I mean to say that this short, overwrought musical construct belies the band’s aspiration to sublime grandeur in obvious subtext.… Continue reading Camera Obscura | Desire Lines | New Music Review
I remember back a couple years ago I was spending New Year’s Eve at this little ski hill pub up in New Hampshire, and there was a live band heading up the evening from a corner stage. They were good too, playing your standard classic rock fare of the Stones, Petty, and the like. Every… Continue reading The 4onthefloor | Spirit of Minneapolis | Review
Friday, June 14th, through Sunday, June 16th, Spring Awakening Music Festival takes over Chicago’s historic Soldier Field with Bassnectar, Calvin Harris, Moby, and more! The 2013 schedule has also been released and can be found here. Spring Awakening Music Festival has two more stellar after parties to release at Primary Nightclub, and another teaser video… Continue reading Spring Awakening Music Festival Schedule Announced
The Nation will experience a special one-hour episode of “The Colbert Report” as Stephen Colbert welcomes Paul McCartney. The super-sized show will feature an interview as well as performances of songs featured on McCartney’s current Out There tour, the new 2013 reissue of “Wings Over America” and more with one song to be exclusively available… Continue reading "The Colbert Report" Announces One-Hour Music Special with Paul McCartney
